Scales, fretboard and keyboard

See the notes at the cursor on a fretboard or a keyboard, write by touching them, and show a scale over both.

Available on iPad, iPhone and Mac.

The bottom panel opens under the score (the rectangle filled at its bottom, in the top bar) (Bottom Panel in the toolbar). Besides the arranger, it has a fretboard and a keyboard: choose them with the buttons down its left side.

The fretboard

Fretboard (on a string track; a drum track has the Drumpad instead) draws the track’s neck: its strings in its tuning, from the open string to the 24th fret.

• The notes of the beat at the cursor, or of the selection, are lit on it, each with its note’s name.
• TapClick a fret to hear it; in Edit, to write that note on that string at the cursor.

The keyboard

Piano is a keyboard of four octaves, from C2 to C6.

• The notes at the cursor are lit on it.
• TapClick a key to hear it; in Edit, to write the note at the cursor. On a tab track, Reflow puts it on a free string; tapclick a lit key again to take the note away.

Scales

The Scale button, the tuning fork at the right of the fretboard and the keyboard, opens the Scale dialog:

• Root: the twelve notes.
• Type: the scale, in five groups: Common (Major, Natural, Harmonic and Melodic Minor), Pentatonic (Major and Minor Pentatonic, Blues), Japanese (Hirajōshi, In, Yo, Iwato, Insen), Modes (Dorian to Locrian) and Other (Whole Tone, the two Diminished scales, Chromatic).
• ♯ or ♭: how its notes are named.

The dialog shows the scale on a staff, its notes with their degrees, and the notes it takes on a circle of the twelve. The speaker beside Apply plays the scale each time you change it.

Apply shows the scale on the fretboard and the keyboard: its notes ringed on the fretboard and marked under the keys. A note at the cursor outside the scale is shown in red. Clear takes the scale away. The scale is a guide on the screen: it isn’t written in the score or saved with it.